Jand is a village in

Jalandhar district Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is the city of Jalandhar. Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent ...

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, India. It is located 3.2 km away from postal head office in Goraya, 13 km from

Phillaur Phillaur is a town and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. The city is situated 20 km from Ludhiana, 45 km from Jalandhar and 140 km from Amritsar. It is situated on the border of the Doa ...

, 36.6 km from district headquarter

Jalandhar Jalandhar () is a city in the state of Punjab, India, Punjab in India. With a considerable population, it ranks as the List of cities in Punjab and Chandigarh by population, third most-populous city in the state and is the largest city in the ...

and 122 km from state capital

Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

. The village is administrated by a

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, who is an

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Education

The village has a Punjabi medium,

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(PRI Jand). The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian

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and the meal prepared in school premises and it was found in 1975.

Demography

According to the report

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by Census India in 2011, Jand has a total number of 92 houses and population of 477 of which include 234 males and 243 females.

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rate of Jand is 77.59%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 62 which is 13% of total population of Jand, and child sex ratio is approximately 1214 higher than state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 77.15% of total population in Jand. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per census 2011, 241 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Jand which includes 152 males and 89 females. According to census survey report 2011, 70.95% workers describe their work as main work and 29.05% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Transport

Goraya railway station is the nearest

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however,

Junction

is 12 km away from the village. The village is 41.9 km away from

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Ludhiana Ludhiana () is the most populous Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab.164.100.161.224 http://164.100.161.224 › filesPDF Ludhiana State: Punjab Business & Industrial Centre, Tier 2 1 ... The city has an estima ...

and the nearest

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is located in Chandigarh also

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport is an international airport serving Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is located at Raja Sansi, northwest from the city centre. It is named after Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru and the founder of Amrit ...

is the second nearest airport which is 131 km away in

Amritsar Amritsar, also known as Ambarsar, is the second-List of cities in Punjab, India by population, largest city in the India, Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, after Ludhiana. Located in the Majha region, it is a major cultural, transportatio ...

References

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